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- From: corsa@shell.portal.com (Eric Richard Elliott)
- Subject: Re: Babylon 5
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:44:25 GMT
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- kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:
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- >It really doesn't matter which CPU you are using, the original source
- >code for lightwave was probably written in C, so essentially it
- >could have been compiled on anything. For all we know, babylon 5 could
- >have been modeled on the Amiga's and rendered on a set of
- >sparcstations.
- >
-
- Actually, it was rendered on a number of Amigas with Video Toasters
- (I think 13 of them, but I'm not sure) networked together with a
- single IBM...the IBM was mainly used for storage of the images, as
- it was equipped with a HUGE hard drive.
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